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Board approves reopening James W. Fannin site as Choice School
0At last night’s regular board meeting, trustees approved the reopening of the James W. Fannin school site as a new Choice School. Reopening the site as a Choice School is a part of the district’s plan to launch a total of 35 new Choice Schools by the year 2020. Fannin closed in 2012. The district is set to open the Innovation, Design, Entrepreneurship Academy, which will be a new high school at the site located at 4800 Ross Ave. Beginning in August 2015, IDEA will start with approximately 100 ninth-graders, adding one grade each subsequent school year up to 12th grade…
Preliminary STAAR results show encouraging signs of student growth
0Following the April 23 release of preliminary STAAR Reading test results from fifth- and eighth-grade district students, Superintendent Mike Miles said he was encouraged by data that showed student growth in both grades. “While they represent only two of the 21 exams our students will take this year, they are a good start, especially as they are only the first administration of these two exams,” Miles said. Below is a chart showing what percentage of eighth-grade Dallas ISD students passed the STAAR Reading test this year compared to what percentage of seventh-grade students passed the test last year. And here is…
First round of district STAAR test results released
0The results of Dallas ISD students from the first administration of the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) tests mirrored statewide increases in reading for 5th grade students and decreases in 8th grade reading scores. According to preliminary results released today by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), the overall percentage of Dallas ISD 5th grade students that passed the exam this year increased by two percentage points. The net gain is nearly two percentage points over last year, approximately the same as Texas 5th grade students overall. The percentage of 8th grade students who passed the Reading test on the…
Dallas ISD partners with SMU Simmons School of Education to support teachers
0As part of the district’s effort to build an effective support system for teachers, Dallas ISD is teaming up with the Southern Methodist University Simmons School of Education to provide three targeted professional development academies for teachers this summer. Approximately 150 Dallas ISD teachers will attend the development academies being held at SMU July 20–Aug. 6, with follow-up sessions during the 2015-16 school year. The teachers attending the development academies, which will be led by SMU professors, were nominated by their principals and approved by a selection committee. The academies at SMU will support specific teacher needs under the Teacher…